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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with which Boston is afflicted, Harvard College must be held responsible. During the last ten years she has graduated a number of gilded literary youths with hearts so light and consciences so easy (we would not say callous) that, where-as they might have been intellectual, they have been content to be merely clever. It must be acknowledged that in this Puritan part of the world they have given us a new, if not an original point of view; they look upon the universe as a vast storehouse of possible amusements, and read, think and write, not in pursuit...
...possessor is not a cheerful matter for contemplation, but when it is remembered that lasting reputations are the exception rather than the rule, we can appreciate the spirit in which a man seeks a reputation which may endure only for his own day and generation, rather than be content with the dismal prospect of enjoying no reputation...
...Catholic or American University is to be located at Washington, D. C. The endowment now in sight is nearly $1,000,000. The founders will not be content with a support insufficient to produce an income of from $300,000 to $400,000; which is the aggregate outgo for any one of the leading universities of England or Germany. The work intended in science, especially in chemistry, engineering and abstruse mathematics, will be abreast with that done in the eading German universities...
...college receives with due appreciation the first of the new edition of summons cards. Beautiful in fresh type, stiff cardboard, and correct heraldry they will form a welcome addition to the bric-a-brac of many an abode of study. Perhaps we ought to rest content with the state of excellence which the cards have now reached, yet we cannot refrain from the hope that eighty-nine may some day be summoned by a billet blazing in crimson and gold, and borne by a boy in buttons...
...phase in the opposition of Cambridge tradesmen to the Co-operative Society has of late begun to manifest itself offensively to such a degree that it deserves public notice. The prominent bookstore whose trade is most seriously affected by the Co-operative Society is not content to charge, as a counter irritant, exorbitant prices for all articles which are necessary to the student, but has now added to its system of trade a course of gross misrepresentation concerning the prices charged by the Co-operative Society. The whole attitude of such opposition to the society is rendered more irritating...